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Aircraft Cabin Air Quality Trends Relative to Ground Level Standards
Aircraft cabin air quality has attracted much attention, summarized recently by a detailed examination and commentary by a U.S. National Academy of...
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Disruptive Behaviour (“Air Rage”): Possible Aetiology
The incidence of disruptive behaviour by passengers in civil aircraft is unknown due to under-reporting. The theoretical pathophysiology is...
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Human Physical Stresses at Normal and Abnormal Cabin Pressures
Atmospheric pressure is reduced as a function of altitude, thus making hypoxia, the condition of oxygen deficiency, a concern for aviation. The...
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Occupational and Public Health Risks
Symptoms reported by passengers and crewmembers on commercial aircraft are described according to individual air quality-related sources,...
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Cooperative Control for Localization of Mobile Sensor Networks
In this paper, we consider the problem of cooperatively control a formation of networked mobile robots/vehicles to optimize the relative and absolute...
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Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales
This paper considers a recently proposed model for the self-organizing, decentralized, real-time motion planning for a swarm of homogeneous mobile...
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Collective Motion and Oscillator Synchronization
This paper studies connections between phase models of coupled oscillators and kinematic models of groups of self-propelled particles. These...
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Cooperative Control of Large Systems
“Cooperative control” is a term which is used to capture those problem areas in which some type of repetition of identical or non-identical...
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Pursuit Strategies for Autonomous Agents
In this paper, we examine the problem of how to achieve certain geometric formations among a group of identical mobile autonomous agents. Our...
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6 Structural Properties of Discrete and Continuous Linear Time-Varying Systems: A Unified Approach
The aim of this chapter is the study of structural properties of linear systems. Systems with time-varying coefficients are considered, both in the...
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1 Nonlinear Adaptive Stabilization via System Immersion: Control Design and Applications
This chapter presents a review of a recently developed methodology for the (adaptive) stabilization of nonlinear systems via state and output...
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10 Discrete-time Systems: Static Output-feedback
In this chapter we bring the solution of the discrete-time counterpart of Chapter 5 where we solve both the H2 and the H∞ static output-feedback...
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11 Systems with State-multiplicative Noise: Applications
In order to demonstrate the application of the theory developed in Chapter 3, we consider the problem of altitude estimation with measurements from a...
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5 Algebraic Analysis of Control Systems Defined by Partial Differential Equations
The present chapter contains the material taught within the module P2 of FAP 2004. The purpose of this intensive course is first to provide an...
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A Appendix: Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations
In this appendix we bring some basic results concerning stochastic differential equations of the Ito type which systems with state-multiplicative...
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7 Discrete-time Systems: Control and Luenberger-type Filtering
In this chapter we bring the discrete-time counterpart of Chapter 2 where we solve the state-feedback control and filtering problems with the aid of...
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3 Continuous-time Systems: General Filtering
In this chapter we bring the solution of the continuous-time stationary filtering using a general-type filter [45], [41]. Recently, the solution of...
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1 Introduction to Nonlinear Optimal Control
The maximum principle is presented in the weak and general forms. The standard proofs are detailed, and the connection with the shooting method for...
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3 Sampled-data Control of Nonlinear Systems
This chapter provides some of the main ideas resulting from recent developments in sampled-data control of nonlinear systems. We have tried to bring...
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4 Stability Analysis of Time-delay Systems: A Lyapunov Approach
This chapter is devoted to the stability problem of time-delay systems using time-domain approach. Some basic concepts of time-delay systems are...